Traveler: Ten Meditations on Italo Calvino’s Literary Worlds
Open AccessItalo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler opens with a character called “Reader,” who is about to read a novel. You read with this character, enjoying the novel and sharing his reactions to the text. The reader discovers a printing error and is obliged to stop reading the novel after the first chapter. He begins a second book but, again, is unable to read more than a fragment. This happens again and again until the reader has been forced to abandon ten different novels. Each of these incipits is written in a different style. Each has its own unique tone and energy. This exhibition offers, in real space, the experience of reading each of the ten incipits.Traveler: Ten Meditations on Italo Calvino’s Literary Worlds is a series of immersive experiences that allows viewers to enter a work of fiction and explore the nature of reading. What is it about reading, and about reading Italo Calvino in particular, that transports us? How do words on a page become images and sensations? Exhibitions, like novels, consist of impressions and facts that, when skillfully composed, form a cohesive whole. When we enter an exhibition, when we open a book, we are confronted by a rush of information. Writers and designers have developed a myriad of strategies to organize this information and convey meaning to their audience. This exhibition uses a selection of experiential strategies to chart a connection between the experience of reading and the experience of attending an exhibition.
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